Thursday, March 26, 2009

How to make a transparent background using The Gimp

After you have created a layer mask, and made the background of your image white, you will have something similar to this:

Now, you say "that's great! I have a white background. But, what if I want the background to be transparent? What if I want to use this image as part of a logo? Or as an icon on a web page?"There are lots of different reasons to want a transparent background.